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ff MURPHY-FOR 4 DEAD, 23 WOUNDED IS FORD'S ANSWER TO THE DEMAND FOR WORK, Beary yi \ Workers Defended Themselves Unarmed Against Volley of Bullets from Ford Killer: s Break Cameras, Destroy Photos Which Show Police Gpened Attack by Shooting Four workers murdered, 23 seriously wounded, scores badly hurt—this is the bloody | result of the machine gun massacre carried | out Monday by the uniformed butchers of Hen-| ry Ford and Mayor Murphy. The withering! rain of death and destruction that left the grounds of the! Ford River Rouge Plant red with the blood of massacred and | wounded workers came when 5,000 workers under the leader- ship of the Unemployed Council of Detroit marched six miles | to the Ford Plant demanding work and immediate relief. The murdered workers are Joe »--——— York, 23, District Organizer of the| gay iti ys: Young Communist League in Detroit | day, March e ees TE and member of the National Execu- “Newspaper men and photog- tive of the Young Communist League, | RAPHE re Micro) CRDEECG duvets eevee Coleman Leny, 20, Ford worker, Geo. and negatives of all the sameras that i | could be seized were confiscated. Russell, 16 years old and Joe Debru- | CU! ae bey Ryatkantrewsioss | Only a few of the pictures of the é The reign of terror invoked by bringing an immense military dis- play int oaction is being further in- tensificd by raids conducted on all Communist Party headuariers, Fran- tie efforts are being made to cover up the criminal responsibility of Ford ard Mayor Murphy for the bloody Aamble, 10 participated in the workers arrested. Sheriff Ben- nounced that he would ask for the filing of murder charges against Joh Pauth, Snelley Rogers and Paul er, National Secretary Trade Union Unity League, William Reyno’ ef Linccln Park on the Communist st, John Schmies, District Or- * of the Communist Party in Detroit, Albert Goetz and John Pace. Steve Cojeran, Daily Worker agent, has already been arrested. Not satisfied. with the horrible massacre carried ‘out by their gun Miayor Murphy and Henry Ford ave trying to charge the workers with first degree murder. Led by Unemployed Council esterday by framing | ch. Murder charges | ‘cought against three of | and detectives are scouring | searching for William 2.| of the | is, former candidate for mayor | | battle were saved.” The Ford and Murphy agents could not even trust the capitalist newspapers to lie sufficient to hide | the deliberate slaughter. They could not permit the photographs to be| shown to the workers. All pictures | published—and the worst were de- stroyed—show the cops, heavily armed, in regular army formation | shooting} at the unarmed, unem- | ployed workers. Whitewashing Ford Officials The capitalist press is widely pub- lishing a statement issued by the | Ford officials, a deliberate attempt to whitewash Ford and his gunmen| from the most brutal murder of un- | employed thus far attempted in the | United States. The lying Ford state- ment at first says: “There were no | Ford men in the mob,” and then | declares “the number of former Ford | men was negligible.”. A large per- centage of the hungry unemployed | who marched to the Ford-plant to demand jobs or relief were either re- cently fired by Ford or at some time | within recent years had slaved for | Ford and sweated at the belt so he | could amass the huge fortune which | he has today. No information is being given out | by the Ford officials about Harry Bennett, head of the Ford Service | ‘The Hunger March to the Ford | Department, who led the massacre | nt had been called by the Unem- | against the workers, Bennett, they ‘ed Council of Detroit. The march | say, was hit in the head by a rock. | ied at the corner of Fort Street | AS part of the frame-up, Bennett is | 1d Oakland Road with over 1,300 | kept out of sight so that “evidence” Workers in line and hundreds stream- | ¢an be manufactured about his being ing in every minute by auto, truck | shot. end street cars. Carrying placards| One of those arrested is Mary demanding Unemployment Insurance| Gossman, a young worker, who was | at Full Wages, Immediate Winter) shot in the midst of the bullet- Relief, the return of jobs for all racked grounds. Three of the men discharged Ford workers, “Down with| shot died right near here, “Three of the workers fell heside me,” she is reported to have told capitalist newspapermen, “I looked to see | who they were, 1 turned the first | one over, and it was Joe York. 1 dragged him back and put his head in my lap. He died there while the guns still were cracking.” the meu who destroy milk,” the workers proceeded along Fort Street | to Miller Road. With every passing | block, masses of workers fell in with | the hunger marchers, | Nearing the Dearborn city limits, | the Hunger March was attacked by | over 60 Dearborn police who drew) their guns end hurled a volley of New Terror Reign. tear gas bombs. Defending thet In the future the unemployed in selves against this vicious attack, the | Detroit who demand bread for their workers began showering the police | hungry families or relief to keep with stones, and pieces of frozen | them from starving to death will be nud, forcing the bluecoated thugs to | greeted with riot guns, according to retreat. }@ statement made by Chairman The surging line of r- ‘Stephen D. Butts of the Detroit City forward till it met a soldi phalanx Commission, who issued a formal | churian frontiers would be of signal) of police lined up un. overhead a trestle on Miller Road | Should starve quietly. near Gate No. 3 of the Ford plant. ‘There scores of police were lined up| Murphy administration of the De- with drawn guns and tear gas bombs. | troit automobile barons, a capitalist Overhead, on top of the trestle staod | administration @ company of firemen. ‘The surging line of march swept | Thomas made a special visit to Mayor forward until it was met with ja| Murphy soon powerful stream of icy water played | “blessing” the Murphy regime as en them by a company of Ford frie- men stationed on an overhead trestle near Gate 3 of the Ford plant, Cops Suddenly Open Fire “Suddenly,” as the United Press corespondent on the scene put it, “the police opened a volley of shots point blank into the maased crowd. The shrieks stopped in an instant, while the cracking of pistols con- tinued. Men dropped along the line. More police arrived at this juncture.” The police then advanced, as photographs show, in battle array, bent on deliberately murdering ic unemployed masses. Win. Green, former governor of Michigan, who steod on the bridge witty Edsel Ford watching the slaugh- ter, fs a millionaire furniture manu- facturer from Grand Rapids, For years he had a contract with the Michigan State Prison in Jack- son to manufacture furniture with convict labor. Green made millions on this contract. In order to hide the facts of the slaughter, and to cover up the delib- erate murders of the Ford gunmen, capitalist newspaper men were or- dered away from the scene of the butchery and their cameras seized) and films destroyed. A special wite from Detroit to the New York Her- ald Tribune, appearing in the Tues- warning to the unemployed that|they This is the latest decree of the which received the blessings of the socialists. Norman after his election, suitable to the social-fascist pro- gram of the socialist party. Now the Murphy regime, which is | closely connected with Wall Street, and is following the hunger program. of the bankers who support the Mur- phy regime through loans, ts declar- ing that all meetings of the unem- ployed will be barred. Instead of seeking to punish the wealthy perpetrators of the murder of the unemployed, Prosecutor Harry 8. Toy of Detroit issued a statement declaring: “No mercy will be shown any person proven to have partici- pated in the riot. We understand those who inspired it are planning another demonstration in the indus- trial era. I have ordeyed police to place all demonstrators behind the bars.” This is the reign of free speech and free assemblage of the unemployed promised b yMayor Murphy! This is Mayor Murphy's open support to the murderers of the unemployed, and to the threats of more drastic action to try to prevent the jobless from demanding relief from the wealthy automobile capitalists. ig =. ere, es “The labor movement will gain the apper hand and show the way to peace and socialism.” LENIN. D MACHINE G This worker is one of the victims of Monday’s massacre. When he came to demand a job or bread, DATE Ford answered him with bullets. ‘MOBILIZE WHITE GUARD DIVISION FOR ATTACK *, AGAINST SOVIET UNION {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) armed attack against the peaceful Soviet Union and its suc-| cessful Socialist construction. The report of the movement of a Japanese fleet against | the Soviet Union is contained in a dispatch from Washington. Monday's Baltimore Sun says the; | report has been confirmed by the | U. S. Navy Department. Official | ‘Washington is jubilant under] its | pretext of “fear of widening of the! trouble in the Far East.” United} States imperialism is the chief leader | in the anti-Soviet front, which aims | at atttempting the destruction of the | gigantic achievements of the working | class in the Soviet Union, where un- | employment has been abolished and | the material and cultutal -conditions: of the toiling masses tremendously | improved at precisely the time when | tens of millions in the capitalist | countries are sentenced to starvation. | Japanese Troops Moving Toward So- | viet Fronvier. | ‘The building of Japanese air bases | on the Soviet frontier is admitted in a dispatch from Harbin, which states: “The Rengo (Japanese News agency reported from Hailin today that the Japanese army has com- pleted a temporary air base there and was constructing another one at Ninguta (150 miles from the Soviet frontier).” Japanese troops arrived two days ago at Ninguta and are reported | pushing on toward the Soviet fron- | tier. A Shanghai dispatch reports that the Japanese are considering di- verting to Manchurla the bulk of the Japanese army now in South China which “disposed along the Man- service to the empire.” ‘The imperialist plan for a Baltic and Danubian bloc of the European vassal states of French imperialism on the western frontier of the Soviet Union. Frantic efforts are being made at the same time to draw Ger- many into the anti-Soviet bloc, in order to facilitate the movement of French troops against the Soviet Union, White Gaurds Push Mobilization The Soviet Union declared yester- day that the attempted assassination of a German consular agent in Mos- | cow was directed towards injuring | relations between the Soviet Union and Germany, annd was inspired by “foregin citizens.” The attempt to assassinate the Gerinan consular is similar to the attempt about two months ago to procure the assassina- tion of theh Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, in order to afford Japan a pretext for declaring war against the Soviet Union. Jt subsequently developed that this latter attempt was directed by a diplomatic egent of Czechoslovakia, one of the puppet states of French imperialism. ‘The White Gaurds in Manchuria are organizing a military unit, under the auspices of the Japanese invaders. The White Gaurdist General Kozmin is in charge of the mobilization, and has exp ressed the hope of raising a division, The first brigade will be under the command of the notorious white gaurdist Nadrynin, and the second brigade under the command of the hardly less notorious Modestov. Nadrynin was formerly a Colonel in the Tzarist army, The division is to be used for operations against the coastal districts of the Soviet Union an despecially against Vladivostok. The mustering of the division is al- ready taking place under the pretext of registering the number of white Russians unemployed in Manchuria. Under favorable circumstances the division will be extended to a corps. Crisis Sharpens Further In Japan ‘The imperialist press admits a ter- \is the driving force in the present |Tapidly increasing war moves against | | you unemployment | set out of the crisis at the expense |their war plans against the only where unemployment has | tific deepening in the economic and financial crisis in Japan. Five Japan- ese banks are reported on the point of collapse. Commercial failures are rapidly increasing. There is a general | slump on all Japanese exchanges. Industrial stocks have fallen off sev- eralsmore points during:the past week. | The robber war against China has not brought prosperity as the dema- gogues brémised, but has further in- ‘tensi their government against the toiling Japanese masses, Throughout the entire capitalist world, the crisis is deepening. This robber war against China and in the the Soviet Union, Workers!’ The capitalists who have sentenced you to | starvation, who have thrown you on the streets and cold-bloodedly denied relief, are now | plotting to throw you into a new and | bloodier world slaughter. | Dying capitalism is trying to get of your life blood, at the expense of the looting of China and armed. in- tervention against the Soviet Union and its successful Socialist construc- | tion. They are rushing forward with country been abolished and the material and cultural conditions of the masses im- | proved. Workers! Rally to the defense of | the Soviet Union! Demand hands off China! Demand the withdrawal of | all imperialist troops annd warships from China! Build United Front Anti- | war Committees in your shops, unions and other organizations! Prevent the transport of arms and munitions! Drive out the diplomatic agents’ of Japanese imperialism which is butch. ering the Chinese masses and acting UNS IS AN iffed"the crisis,"with the increas- | DNESDAY, MARC 9, 1932 TO DE Dearborn police shown hurling tear gas bombs in first attack on the Ford Hunger March Monday. DETROIT, Mich.—Two weeks ago an Anti-War Committee was or- ganized at the foundry in Ford's. When the Communist Party nucleus in the plant issued a leaflet against war, this commmittee, consisting of workers who are not members of the Communist Party distributed it throughout the factory. A few days later the boss came into the department 411 and told the workers to switch to depart- ment 413. The workers refused because the working conditions in than those of 411. would have had to buy special gloves for this new work. Surprised at this militant resistance of the foundry workers, the boss called for the superintendent. Every worker was asked individually whether he was willing to work in the other department and every one refused. The boss started to look to other parts of the foundry for help. The Communist Party then is- | unemployed relief for all the latter department are worse | Besides, they | Ford Workers Fight Attempt to Force Worse J obs on Them sued another leaflet calling upon the workers to keep up the resist- ance and appealing to them to organize a Grievance Committec. A leaflet was also issued to the entire plant calling upon the work- ers to show their solidarity in this struggle. The example of the foundry workers should serve as an inspira- tion to all the Ford workers that united action can successfully fight speed-up, wage euts and force former Ford employees. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—An audi- ence of 300 watched with great in- | terest pictures of “Russia Building” | employn and the c ntrast of hunger and un- nt represented in the pict- ures of the National Hunger March | Pictures of Lenin and the Red Army ready for defense brought applause. John Ballam, who is touring the country lecturing with the pictures | was greeted enthusiastically. m Page Three MAND FOR BREAD! 1 uc Wil you pe working | What IS Your Answer? | Big Tag Day Army /TO SAVE what is your answer to the slaughter slice of the Detroit Hunger March- mit the voice of the revolutionary class struggle, the Daily Worker, to be stilled at a time when it must ring out most loudly and clearly? must be spr At a time when the Daily Worker ad more widely than ever among the workers of America, to rouse them to the growing boss terror wave, reaching new heights in the De- iroit machine gun massacre, at such a time the Dail; ancial difficulties have you done y Worker is facing suspension because of fin- You, reading the paper now, ERYTHING you possibly can to save the Daily Worker? Read closely the account of the massacre in Detroit. Read closely the account of the boss terror in Kentucky, where $1,000 reward has been offered the body, DEAD or alive, of Frank Borich, N tional Miners’ Union secretary, WITH NO QUESTIONS ASKED. Read the accounts of the increasing deportation danger, the bosses’ at- tempts to outlaw the Communist Party, the van- guard of the working class, and to outlaw the Trade Union Unity League, the central organiza- tion of the workers’ revolutionary unions. Then ask yourself, is this a time to give up’ the central organ of the workers’ revolutionary movement? Is this a time for allowing the Daily Worker to suspend just because YOU haven’t done EVERYTHING in your power to save the Daily Worker? Rush every penny possible NOW to save the Daily Worker. Join the National Tag Day army this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Get your box t hrough your Unit, through your mass organization, through the Daily Worker station in your neighborhood. This is a critical week. Your action in the next few days will decide the fate of the Daily Worker, | Ex-Serviceman Tells ‘About Brutal Police | Terror at Ford Plant Detroit, Mich. Daily Worker: I went to the Ford plant a couple of days before the machine-gun massacre of unemployed by Ford's Meech 1926 ing attacks by the employers and | ISSUED by THE FORD SECTION OF THE COMAUNIST PARTY Vol. 7, No. t March 1932 Price One Cent THE HUNGER MARCH Today, March 7, at two o'clock, we march to the factory and demand the working _ conditions that henefit mainly those al work now. | These demands are dictated not only | hy cur present plight but also by} the fact that the For Motor Com-| pany during the last six months up for the production of the new he speed-up drive that unless changes just as sweeping takes place in the working conditions, un-| |f§ employment now great and widespread] in all the departments will, i f ity of the ford worker has in-| creased to such an extent, that a frac- tion of the former help is sufficient to fill the present needs. Our demands are neither exagger- ated nor illogical. Henry Ford has accumolated a fabulous reserve of cash out of the worker's sweat, and is still accumulating. The workers of the Ford Motor Company must realize that the time has come to take @ stand, both about ser as the epearhead of world imperial- ism for armed intervention against the Soviet Union! Support the revo- lutionary struggles of the Japanese and Chinese masses! DARCY ON STAND IN LONG BEACH TRIAL OF 45 Communist Organizer Gives Lesson On Capitalism LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 8. —Sam Darcy, District Organizer of the Communist Party here, the first defense witness on trial of the 45 workers of Long Beach charged with unlawful assembly, took the stand for the fourth day as the trial was resumed after postponement of one week. Darcy continued reading from “Elements of Political Education,” commenting on each paragraph and exposing capitalist economy. He scored chaotic capitalist. pro- duction under which the surplus of capitalist products are des- troyed, although the masses starve. Darcy will continue on the stand | tomorrow the condition of the unemployed and! of those that are at. work, No concern was ever felt for th consequences that all these chan could bring on the workers. No at tempt waz ever made fo extend to the workers any of the benefits veal ized by the changes. The conditions of the workers jhave been petting Now we have hed the braking point. But no tondition can be bettered without an organized effort, without Union. A drive must be made to organize all the Ford Workers.” The Ford Section of the Communist Farty calle on‘all the workers to join the Auto Werkers Union, 4219 Hast.| Ings Street. | Tried to Cause War Crisis by Shooting of Consul in Moscow MOSCOW, March 8.—Investiga- tion by the Political Department of the Red Army show that Stern, the assailant of Tvardovsky, consul of the German Embassy at Moscow, confessed to membership in a ter- rorist group operating within the Soviet Union on instructions from a@ foreign center, Stern admits his aim in the at- tempt on Tvardoysky's life was to worsen the Soyiet-German rela- tions, thus weakening the interna- tional position of the Soviet Union. the unemployed Ford Workers will|Rooms and oyer 40,000 cars have! b will | days a week with skeleton erews. ready a widespread wage-cul will be} » s|made among tool and die makers. | shoui brought about such sweeping changes | No department will be spared. ‘W in the machine layout, in the tooling | will we do about it. How are we take ORGANIZE! DEMANDS OF FORD | | | FORD UNEMPLOYED DEMAN WORK OR WAGES 4 The production of the: new four-} 12. Full wages for part-time work- j cylinder car has started and although | ers, ‘ord is already supplying the Show cen manufactured, although this is| that the Ford Motor Company stip: | the busy season in the automobile} This ¥ | ply we with jobs at full pay. We| industry, will also demand several changes in| are work Abolition of grait system in g workers. 14, The right to otganize. lunger March on Ford is part the production departments | of the whole struggle for Unemploy- ing a maximum of three! ment Insurance and immediate relief, {Demonstrate on March 7th. Asking We authoritatively know that as/all Ford workers and Jaid-off Ford soon as the tools and dies for the | workers new V-Kight-Cylinder car will be | send the j workers to} ings stand” against Tana Killed HUNGER MARCH | e: The follo’ errs Ford, Not ing demands were| gunmen obedient to the orders of the Coal operators, including Henry Harry Simms was a member of the Young Co: to make supgestions 4nd m to the varions halle. Ford requiting immediate relief mediately get in touch with atlihe Unemployed Council, 4819 Hest. HARRY SIMMS in February, by Kentucks: punist League and This shop paper containing the demands of the Ford Hunger March was distributed before the plant Monday. massacre at the Dearborn Ford thousands of men standing there and Murphy’s police. There were awaiting a chance to go to the em- ployment office. They were there in line all night, I and a few more comrades passed out leaflets to the workers who were going to work. They took them eagerly, stuffed them into their pockets and went into the factory. We then moved to gate three. There were 10,000 unemployed stand- ing in line. We started handing out the leaflets. The men got uneasy. They began crying out “We wanl jobs.” | The pelice attempted to arrest @ man in the line. The workers at once gathered around their fellow- workers to protect him. Four offi- cers then tried to put the worker in a scout car. The workers surrounded the car. An offiver then attempted to ar- Test me. He threw tear gas in my face and clubbed me with his stick. Workers soon rushed to my support | and we worried the officers off. | ‘The dicks then arrived and tried ; ‘© arrest someone. They arrested jone helpless little worker. They | arrested him and beat him terribly | before driving off to the cell with him. AN EX-SERVICEMAN,. Workers CLEVELAND, Obio, Mareh 8. aries of the Commun's You ganizations at a mee ( Party, called twelve hours of Ciher Cues Roused by Massace of Detroit Jobless Ine hundred and fifteen function- Communist League and mass or- fier the Detroit massacre, pledged to mobilize the Cleveland workers against this bloody attack. We pledge to answer and mohillze Tag Days to raise tomorrow a minimum of MASSILLON, Ohie, March 8, The following telegram of protest against the murder of four workers in the Ford hunger march was sent to the Mayor of Dearborn by the | International Labor Defense here: “The International Labor Defense of Massilon, Ohio, protests against the bloody attack made upon the unemployed march to the Ford plant, held under the Iecdersh!p of the Unemployed Councils of Deiroit and Dearborn. “We will mobilize every worker in Massilon and vicinity in protest a- gainst this vicious massacre of the hungry unemployed masses.” * * CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The whole Ohio district is being mobilized for mass demonstrations of protest against the murder of the three Detroit workers by police and Ford Co, thugs. Demonstrations will be held at every Ford plant in the state, and in cities where there are no For dplants the demonstrations will be at central points, all our forces for the Dally Worker Sunday, March 6, noon, at which $500. Stations will he anounced Wn. %. Foster was the main spaieey | e This huge mass meeting has In Cleveland, where Rayford and | |Deen called by Trade Union Unity | |League jointly with the Unem- Jackson were similarly murdered BY | | pioved Councils for the hunger the besses’ police, a united front of all possible working-class or- | ganizations has been established within 24 hours of the Detroit mur- | ders. On the day of the funeral of the Ford hunger marchers, Cleve- | lard workers will demonstrate in sands at the Ford plant, } and Euclid Ave. The Ccmonstretion will be preceded by a march, in which all working-class organizations will participate. All March 8 meetings for Inter- national Women's Day will be linked up with th eorganized protest movement, There will be four of these meetings in Cleveland alone. Cleveland workers’ organizations will send a delegetion to the fu- neral of the hunger marchers in Detroit, to voice their burning re- solution to avenge their comrades’ death by a more determined battle than ever against capitalism and its rising wave of terror | | about the present economical cri- 4,000 Were at Meet _ In Detroit Where | Wm. Z. Foster Spoke DETROIT, Mich. — Over four thousand Nezro and white workers came (6 tho mass mecting in| Dancrlend Auditorium in Detroit, | \Mmarch to Ford's Piant in River Rouge at which the police mas- | | sacred 4 workers. || Before the mesting a parade was | |held in which about 400 workers participated. The meet ng was very enthusi- ic, each sncaker was ¢ iHeally, Wm, Z. Fe |given a huge ovation, Speaking | sis, he pointed out the millions of |memployed workers who were |sttrving and told of the Soviet || union where new factories are |built and the conditions of the | | workers are improving rapidly. He urged the workers present to form |* a strong Auto Workers Union. The Unemployment Insurance | Bill was put to a vote and all those present unanimously voted for. | Also a anti-war resolution and a resolution against fascism was ad- opted.